particle-academy / youtube-php
YouTube for PHP — the service descriptor, its faker, its webhook verification, and one class per operation. Plain HTTP on particle-academy/fancy-connector-core; no vendor SDK.
Maintainers
Package info
github.com/Fancy-Friends/youtube
Language:Python
pkg:composer/particle-academy/youtube-php
Requires
- php: ^8.4
- particle-academy/fancy-connector-core: >=0.3.1 <2.0
Requires (Dev)
- laravel/pint: ^1.26
- pestphp/pest: ^3.0|^4.0
README
YouTube for fancy-flow — as four imported, versioned packages, one per runtime. Not vendored source: a copy cannot be upgraded, and third-party APIs change.
| Runtime | Package | Install |
|---|---|---|
| Authoring surface (every host) | @particle-academy/youtube-ui |
npm install @particle-academy/youtube-ui |
| Node | @particle-academy/youtube-js |
npm install @particle-academy/youtube-js |
| PHP 8.4+ | particle-academy/youtube-php |
composer require particle-academy/youtube-php |
| Python 3.11+ | fancy-youtube |
pip install fancy-youtube |
The ui package is the editor surface and is React on every host — a PHP or
Python project installs it and its own runtime package, and never the js one.
What it costs you
One dependency: @particle-academy/fancy-connector-core (or
particle-academy/fancy-connector-core on Composer), which the js and php
packages pull in themselves. The Python package has zero runtime
dependencies.
No YouTube SDK. Plain HTTP, deliberately: a vendor SDK is third-party code subject to the kit's full approval bar, and one per provider is hundreds of dependencies nobody is tracking.
Setting it up
Everything below is generated from provider/manifest.json, so it cannot disagree with what the packages do.
Credentials
A YouTube connection holds 4 values.
Two kinds of value, and mixing them up matters. A provider credential is ONE value for the whole installation — an OAuth app's client secret serves every connected account. An account credential is one per connected account. A host that stores the second where it stores the first lets one account's credentials reach another's.
| Field | Scope | Secret | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|---|
| OAuth client ID | per installation | not secret | From Google Cloud Console. One value for the whole installation. |
| OAuth client secret | per installation | secret | The client secret for the same OAuth app. |
| Access token | per connected account | secret | Per connected YouTube account; expires after one hour. |
| Refresh token | per connected account | secret | Per connected YouTube account; the host uses it to refresh the access token. |
Authorising
YouTube uses OAuth2 (authorization_code). The package DECLARES the exchange; the HOST performs it — a consent screen needs a browser, a redirect URI and somewhere to persist the result, and all three belong to the host.
- Authorize URL — https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/v2/auth
- Token URL — https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token
- Scopes —
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl - Access token lifetime — 3600 seconds (1 hours). A host that never refreshes works all afternoon and is broken by morning.
The refresh tokens do not rotate: the same one is reusable, so a refresh may safely be retried and may run concurrently. Stated rather than assumed, because the opposite — a provider that spends the token and revokes the grant on a replay — looks identical until it happens.
The estate
YouTube has no test estate, and somebody checked. Everything this connector does is real. Use the faker to build against it.
YouTube has no sandbox. Every live-mode add changes a real playlist; use the faker during development and remove live test items afterward.
What it can do
Actions
playlist_item_insert — YouTube playlist item
Add a video to a YouTube playlist.
POST /youtube/v3/playlistItems · unsafe to replay — a retried durable run does it TWICE
| Input | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|
playlistId |
yes | The YouTube id of the playlist to add the video to. |
videoId |
yes | The YouTube id of the video to add. |
Run it before you have credentials
Every operation ships a faker, whether or not YouTube has a sandbox. Set a
node's mode to fake and it returns the shape YouTube actually publishes — the
same field names, deterministically — so you can wire the downstream nodes before
touching an account, a key, or a network.
This repository is generated
provider/ is the source. Everything under packages/ is emitted from it and
must not be hand-edited — CI regenerates and diffs on every push, and the
next protocol sync destroys anything it finds. See AGENTS.md.
Two namespaces, which do not match on purpose
The repo is github.com/Fancy-Friends/youtube; the packages publish under
particle-academy. Nothing derives one from the other — the names come from
weaver's friends.json and nowhere else.
Licence
MIT.